Sentence examples for gesture stands from inspiring English sources

Now, when immigrant communities are under attack and the need for immigration reform continues to grow, their gesture stands as an extraordinary example of bipartisan collaboration with the hope of resulting in fair and pragmatic solutions that will lead our country forward.

His wife supplied fake poppies as a good luck gesture, stand-ins for flowers he received during his run as the Stage Manager in a London production of "Our Town" a dozen years ago.

Against this Barnum-like theatricality, spontaneous gestures stand out.

A few gestures stood out, among them the rocking of a baby and the scrabbling of an imprisoned man.

This was the urge to make a gesture, to stand conspicuously apart, to pit himself against established orthodoxies in his own party.

In a symbolic, if slightly awkward, gesture, he stood before crowds in Tahrir Square, the crucible of the 2011 uprising, and unbuttoned his jacket.

But the gesture still stood!" The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City is an intensely odd and amazing archive of oddities that claims to provide the community with a "hands-on experience of life in the Lower Jurassic".

Of the eight candidates, Mr Rafsanjani alone has the experience and influence to challenge Mr Khamenei and, perhaps, restore lustre to the office.Some reformists regret that Mr Moin did not reject Mr Khamenei's gesture and stand aside from a flawed process.

"When I got home," Verdi told his publisher years later, "I threw the manuscript on the table with a violent gesture, and stood staring at it.

If only they knew what those hand gestures really stood for in sign language.

But Hamlet doesn't really believe that theatrical gestures can stand in for reality.